A Brussels Renaissance Tapestry, After Cartoons by Michel Coxien, Second Half of the 16th Century
Noah and his Sons Resting
Lot Closed
October 16, 05:24 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
depicting Noah resting under a baldachin while his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, gather around him. Inscribed NOE. BIBENS. VIBVM. INEBRIATUS/EST. ET. NVDAI VS. GENESIS. VI (In landscape, Shem [or Japheth] covers his father Noah, naked sleeping out of doors, as Ham derides him) from Genesis 9:18-27 along the top border, lower right corner of selvedge with Brussels town mark
silk and wool
13 ft. 1 in. by 12 ft. 8 ½ in.; 4 by 3.9 m.
Probably Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, The Chapel-Room, Knole, Kent;
Thence by descent at Knole until the late 19th century;
J.P. Morgan, Sr.;
Sold from the Morgan Collection to French & Co., New York in 1916;
Christie's New York, 11 January 1994, lot 214.
J. Nash, Mansions of England in the Old Time, 1870, vol. II, pl. XLVI.
Three other tapestries from this series are also included in this sale as lots 85 through 88.
For a discussion on the production and history of these tapestries, please see the catalogue note for lot 85.
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